Promises to keep

How Psychology Can Keep Its Promises: A Response to Lana

New ways to keep old promises in health care.

Epigenetics of human asthma and allergy: promises to keep.

OBJECTIVE The interest in asthma epigenetics is high because epigenetic mechanisms likely contribute to the environmental origins of the disease and its phenotypic variability. This review presents the main findings of asthma epigenetics and the challenges that still delay progress. DATA SOURCES We examined the current literature on asthma epigenetics (31 reviews and 25 original data publicat...

Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises.

Promises are speech acts that create an obligation to do the promised action. In three studies, we investigated whether 3- and 5-year-olds (N=278) understand the normative implications of promising in prosocial interactions. In Study 1, children helped a partner who promised to share stickers. When the partner failed to uphold the promise, 3- and 5-year-olds protested and referred to promise no...

Do the new materials keep their promises regarding good lubrication?

To investigate the lubrication on different soft contact lenses during a week of wearing them. Twenty-five subjects participated in this research for six weeks and they wore six different soft contact lenses (Pure Vision B&L, Pure Vision II B&L, Air Optix, Focus N&D CIBA, Biofinity Cooper, Acuvue Oasys J&J). The contact lenses were randomly selected and the subjects did not know which contact l...